Section: News & Summaries

Ukraine and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have signed a loan agreement on the modernization of the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS). The signing ceremony was held in Brussels on Monday during Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk’s visit, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. The agreement envisions the...

The National Security and Defense Council explains why the airports of Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia were closed. Airports of Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia were closed due to security considerations. Spokesman of the NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko told a briefing Tuesday. “According to my information, this...

An IMF mission working in Ukraine will conclude its work by the end of this week. IMF First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton said this in a statement on his visit to Ukraine, which was released on the IMF website on Sunday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. “I visited Kyiv on December 13, for meetings with the president, prime...

Russia introduces restrictions on Ukrainians coming to work in the country from January 1, 2015. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told about this in an article for the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper. “Work in Russia is the only source of livelihood for many Ukrainians. And Russia will have to cut off this source only due to Ukraine’s...

Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin on Monday started a two-day visit within the frames of the Ukrainian delegation, headed by the Prime Minister of Ukraine, to the EU institutions in Brussels. During the visit, Klimkin will hold a series of meetings with the officials of the European Commission (EC) to discuss the implementation of the peaceful plan...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said about the need for early meeting of the contact group on Donbas. This was reported on the official Facebook page of the Russian Foreign Ministry. “In the context of the situation in the south-east of Ukraine, the need was stressed for consistent...

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk will hold the first meeting of the Ukraine-EU Association Council in Brussels and will discuss the resumption of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic course. This was reported by an Ukrinform correspondent in Brussels. The Ukrainian day in Brussels coincided with a national strike in Belgium that blocked the...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree granting Ukrainian citizenship to Ekaterina Zguladze, a candidate for the post of Ukraine’s first deputy interior minister. The head of state wrote this on his Twitter page. “I have signed a decree granting Ukrainian citizenship to a candidate for the post of first deputy...

The previous day in the ATO area passed without casualties among the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, despite seven cases of shelling by terrorists. Spokesperson of the Defense Ministry Viktoria Kushnir told a briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “There are no casualties among manpower over 24 hours,” she said. The Defense...

Ukrainian military, using the “silence” regime, carried out practical training. The ATO press center informs. “In the area of Mariupol, the troops learned to counteract the enemy amphibious assault landing and worked through the issue of engineering equipment in the area,” a statement reads. In addition, thanks to the “silence”...